Kaffir folk-lore, The Story of Tangalimlibo., sentence 55
He took the big ox that was called by her name and killed it.
Who acts: father, name, thing · What happens: take, call, kill, name · To what, where: big ox, water · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, The Story of Tangalimlibo.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (father, name, thing), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 took | nsubj |
| 2 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ox | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ox | amod |
| 5 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 took | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 called | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | aux:pass |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 ox | acl:relcl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 name | case |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 killed | cc |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 took | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 killed | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | father | the big ox | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ox=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call | past · passive | thing's name | the big ox | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | kill | past | father not said here | water | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | name | thing | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Kaffir folk-lore» by George McCall Theal, Project Gutenberg book 71335 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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